Huang Chao and Li Zicheng were dug up from their ancestral graves and died.

Speaking of the leaders of the ancient peasant uprising in China, the most famous ones are Huang Chao in the Tang Dynasty, Li Zicheng in the Ming Dynasty and Hong Xiuquan in the Qing Dynasty. Among them, the fate of Huang Chao and Li Zicheng is very similar, because both of them failed again after hitting the capital at that time, and were killed soon after.

On December 13th, the first year of Guangming in Tang Xizong, Huang Chao invaded Chang 'an, and succeeded to the throne in the famous Hanyuan Temple, calling himself "Daqi" and taking the title of Xuande. Only four years later, another four years later, Huang Chao fled and was killed by his subordinate and nephew Lin Yan in the Wolf and Tiger Valley of Mount Tai.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng established Dashun regime, with the title of Yongchang. Soon after, he successfully entered Beijing and destroyed the Ming Dynasty. But after being defeated by Wu Sangui and the Qing army, Li Zicheng hastily proclaimed himself emperor, fled Beijing and was killed in Jiugongshan, Tongshan County, Hubei Province.

Generally speaking, the peaks and valleys of Huang Chao and Li Zicheng's life are only very short. This is of course because they lack progress and are eager for the pleasure after success. But in the eyes of the ancients, there is another reason, that is, their ancestral graves have been dug!

Let's talk about the ancestral graves of Huang Chao and Huang Chao in Jinzhou, Shaanxi. After Huang Chao rebelled and proclaimed himself emperor, Cui joined local officials and led troops to dig Huang Chao's ancestral grave to get back at Huang Chao.

According to historical records, they found a stone bucket in Huang Chao's ancestral grave, which contained a beast with a yellow waist and a sword. The yellow beast saw the sword and fell to the ground and died. That autumn, Huang Chao was defeated and fled, and was finally killed by his nephew Lin Yan. His head was sent to the capital Chang 'an for public display.

Li Zicheng's experience is also unfortunate. After Li Zicheng rebelled, Bian Da, the county magistrate of Mizhi County in his hometown, dug up the graves of Li Zicheng's father and grandfather on the eighth day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen under the command of Wang Qiaonian, then governor of Shaanxi Province. Bian Wan also captured a scaly white snake in Li Jiazu's tomb, "two inches long and sharp".

Bian Shou burned the snake's remains and Li Zicheng's father and grandfather to ashes, and cut down all the surrounding trees, in order to destroy the geomantic omen of Li Zicheng's ancestral grave and leave Li Zicheng with no good end. After learning this, Li Zicheng was furious. He finally destroyed the Ming Dynasty, but the ending was somewhat miserable.